

Quiz Answers: What Happened in UX & AI in 2025?
The 70 correct answers to the quiz about developments in UX and AI in 2025, including links to the full articles with more information.
Jakob Nielsen
1 hour ago53 min read


The Big Tough UX-AI Quiz
Summary: 70 hard questions about the last year in UX and AI. Did you master the fast pace of recent developments? Give the quiz a try and count up your score! Do you dare take my quiz? (GPT Image 1.5) I published more than 100 articles last year (see my list of the year’s top 10 articles and 10 main themes ). This quiz probes topics across the gamut of my coverage. Try answering these questions to check how much you learned from what happened in 2025. I will post the answers
Jakob Nielsen
3 days ago23 min read


The Year in Image Generation
Summary: For each month of 2025, here is the best image I made that month. The collection shows the progress of AI-generated images over the year, in terms of the complexity of imagery that creators can now attempt. I used 5 different image tools to create the winning pictures, using GPT Image-1 the most. (Nano Banana Pro) 2025 made one thing clear: image rendering is no longer the hard part. Editorial selection is. When you can generate dozens of plausible variations in a
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 28, 202511 min read


UX Roundup: 2025 Predictions Revisited | AI Paradigm Shifts | AI and Doctor Burnout | Useful AI Sells
Summary : Predictions for UX in 2025 revisited | 2025 saw major paradigm changes in AI | Simple AI reduces doctors’ burnout | Fast sales growth for providers of useful AI services UX Roundup for December 22, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Merry Christmas Merry Christmas from UX Tigers and Jakob Nielsen. (Nano Banana Pro) I hope you have a wonderful and peaceful holiday season. Watch my UX Christmas Song (YouTube, 2 min.), and compare with my 2024 Christmas Song to appreciate how f
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 22, 202521 min read


2025 Year in Review: Themes, Trends, Status, Top 10 Articles
Summary: AI disrupted UX practice across multiple vectors: research methodology, interface ontology, temporal dynamics, economic structures, and distribution channels. UX professionals must reconceptualize their discipline from artifact-centric design toward orchestrating intent-driven systems while cultivating individual agency as the primary professional competency. (Nano Banana Pro) I published about 330,000 words across 100 articles on UX Tigers in 2025 (including this
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 18, 202533 min read


UX Roundup: How People Use AI | AI Does User Research | Founding Designers | Prompt Engineering | AI Agent Use Cases | Electricity Fuels AI | GPT 5.2 Beats Humans
Summary : How People Use AI for professional and creative jobs | AI conducts user interviews at scale, converting qualitative quotes to quant data | When and how to hire the first designer in a startup company | Prompt engineering debunked: Don’t specify a mastery persona | Longitudinal user research needed to judge AI agent usability | A new generation of power turbines may meet the need for AI electricity | GPT 5.2 132% better than human experts on economically valuable tas
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 15, 202520 min read
